February 5, 2012

guillaume apollinaire coined the word ‘surrealism’ while recovering from the wound in which a length of shrapnel penetrated his temple and lodged in his brain

an inherent smirk in the word ‘triglyceride’

endurance cuisine

the mission district gym called 4SF that was secretly an abbreviation for ‘Too too solid flesh’

Enver Hoxha

Contact with skin causes immediate whitening due to the rapid production of subcutaneous oxygen

“Oh, my life is very simple,” said Dorothea, her lips curling with an exquisite smile, which irradiated her melancholy.

Bronchiolitis obliterans

the story about Rembrandt, Thomas Browne and Rene Descartes all being present for the anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp

worn almond face of a commune mom in the eighties

a chameleon has a master who places it on a Scotch plaid. it is first frenzied, and then dies of fatigue

            the only saltwater frog
            the only herbivorous snake
            the only carnivorous parrot

Marcel Proust circling people at parties, collecting the divinations and observations that he called his mel noir (black honey)

vision of myself collapsing in a pizza parlor
and coughing an impossible amount of arterial blood onto the white tile floor

Despite its name, the New River is the second oldest river in the world

Paul Claudel visited her in the asylum every few years, though he referred to her in the past tense.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord

metronome with index finger

Commodus killed a Camelopardalis, or giraffe, the tallest, the most gentle, and the most useless of the large quadrupeds.

Is there no beginning to your talents?

it has to stop

Appreciation of art is a moral erection

awkwardness returned to painting about 1870

Clodomiro Picadio Twight

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a hypercane or multiple megacyclones

a word like ‘only’ that relates twoness rather than oneness

Tyler Clementi is Jumping off the gw bridge sorry

middle third

Morelia spilota

the potent cardiac glycoside cerberin

Spisula solidissima

everyone goes to the grand canyon to marvel at five miles of emptiness, but no one looks up to watch forty miles of blue, much less at night, when distance is lyrical

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something horrific and mesmerizingly reptilian about the skin of a pineapple

MEDIUM TONIC

cannabinate in peace

a polyhedron of causes

We begin already to find fires necessary.

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